Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is past midnight over Saipan, the summer of 1944, and a Japanese bomber crew thinks the darkness is keeping them safe. It isn’t. Somewhere below and behind them, a big twin-boomed aircraft is sliding into position, its radar operator murmuring headings, its...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Poco después del amanecer del lunes, las sirenas antiaéreas y el zumbido de los motores llegaron a una ciudad que la mayor parte de la guerra no había tocado. Nizhnekamsk se encuentra a unos 1200 kilómetros (750 millas) del territorio ucraniano más cercano, en pleno corazón de la república rusa de Tartaristán. A media mañana...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A Marine fighter squadron that flew its last Hornet into retirement in 2023 is coming back — and this time it is coming back for the carrier deck.On 31 July 2026, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115, the “Silver Eagles,” flew the F-35C Lightning II...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere under the granite of Taiwan’s Central Mountain Range, a squadron of fighter jets rolled into a cave and the blast doors closed behind them. This was not a movie set. It was this week’s headline act of Han Kuang 42, the island’s largest...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It is the kind of thing a weekend pilot never expects to see filling the windscreen: the grey nose of an F-16 Fighting Falcon sliding into formation a few wingspans away, wings heavy with missiles. On Sunday, at least one general-aviation pilot over New Jersey got...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Una red de defensa aérea moderna es tan buena como sus ojos. Si los radares están cegados, los misiles que se encuentran detrás de ellos disparan contra fantasmas. El 2 de agosto de 2026, Ucrania se propuso hacer precisamente eso, no en la línea del frente, sino a más de 270 kilómetros detrás de ella, en lo profundo del territorio...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For two days this weekend, the flattest stretch of Nebraska turns into the loudest. Offutt Air Force Base throws open its gates on 8 and 9 August for the 2026 Defenders of Freedom Air & Space Show, and the headline act is the one everyone came to see: a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En 1964, Francia se unió al club nuclear en sus propios términos. Negándose a depender de las armas estadounidenses o británicas, construyó un elegante avión delta supersónico para transportar su propia bomba: un pura sangre bimotor de dos plazas que podía dirigirse a Moscú al doble de la velocidad de...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Most Vietnam-era warplanes are long gone — melted into scrap or bolted to a museum pole. The OV-10 Bronco keeps refusing to leave. Built to fight guerrillas in the 1960s, the funny little twin-boom turboprop has come roaring back again and again: over the Mekong...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
By a decades-old agreement between the U.S. services, the Army isn’t really supposed to fly its own combat aeroplanes — that job belongs to the Air Force. The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk is the great exception: a stubby, triple-tailed, bug-eyed turboprop built for...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It looked like a punchline — a helicopter with its fuselage bent upward in the middle like a piece of fruit, a fat rotor spinning at each end. Soldiers called it the Flying Banana, and they meant it with affection. But the Piasecki H-21 was no joke. It pulled...
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